Conservationists want "bird killer" wall removed.

Conservationists say glass wall killing birds in OC

The Associated Press

Article Last Updated: 11/27/2007 03:06:47 AM PST

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—Conservationists want a developer to get rid of a glass wall built around a housing development after they say at least a dozens birds were killed when they flew into it.
Among the birds conservationists say have died include two harrier hawks, a mourning dove, a yellow rumped warbler and a hummingbird.

"You could not build a better passive bird killer in a better spot than they did here," said Scott Thomas, conservation director for Sea & Sage Audubon, an Orange County chapter of the Audubon Society.

Hearthside Homes, which is building 350 homes on a mesa overlooking the Bolsa Chica wetlands, has no plans to take down the wall that the company was given permission to build in 2005, said Senior Vice President Ed Mountford.

more: http://www.montereyherald.com/state/ci_7569689?nclick_check=1

People in Huntington Beach, get out your best political bumper stickers and start pasting! :evilgrin:

(And a reminder to the people who live in that housing development: Don't throw stones.)